Neuroscientist & musician interested in sensory processing, natural neuroscience, biological/artificial collective intelligence.
NEU • Harvard • NYU • Basis
Joined March 2019
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New preprint!
tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵
w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Basis researcher @ralph_ep will be in Texas this week to give a talk at PestWorld 2026! 🐀 Catch his talk, "Eavesdropping on Urban Rats: Bringing AI and Field Neuroscience to Rodent Monitoring and Mitigation," on Thursday 10/22 from 1:30-2:45 PM in Fort Worth 6-7.
Had a great time speaking about our work at the National Urban Rat Summit last week! We are building AI tools to sense the natural world and uncover patterns that humans cannot perceive, e.g. human-inaudible ultrasonic rat vocalizations.
Last week Basis researchers attended the National Urban Rat Summit, where @Ralph_Ep presented our work using acoustic monitoring to study rat behavior, while Nick Jourjine showcased monitoring devices on a nighttime “rat walk” 🐀.
Ralph and @e_Mackevicius also met @MayorWu. Ralph spoke with WBUR about the research: wbur.org/news/2026/09/29/bos…
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🌆🐀Scientific American article about the project we're starting on NYC rats!! scientificamerican.com/artic…
With @ralph_ep, @zamakany, and Dima Batenkov
Seeking collaborators and funders 🐀🌆
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What do neuroscience labs and the streets of New York City have in common? They are both commonly home to rats, a feature this research team is leveraging to study rat social cognition in the wild.
By @martajhill
thetransmitter.org/social-co…
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🎓🧠Applying to PhD programs in neuroscience, psychology, or cognitive science in the US?
NYU’s Application Support Group (ASG) is a student-led, free mentorship program offering 1-on-1 support & guidance. Apply now: bit.ly/4mfPtyb
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This is probably also a good time to announce that I have parlayed this literal PhD moonlight project into a postdoc at @BasisOrg, where I am working on Collaborative Intelligent Systems (biological and artificial) with Emily Mackevicius.
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We’re proud to announce the launch of AutumnBench, an open-source benchmark developed on our Autumn platform. This benchmark, led by our MARA team, provides a novel platform for evaluating world modeling and causal reasoning in both human and artificial intelligence.
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We’re making the @BasisOrg organisation document public today. It’s less a charter and more a design doc—our spec for why a new kind of technology and research organisation is needed, and how to build it.
(link below)